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[Sheb]

Also, the Pacific is fine to protect the US from missiles, but it doesn't work as well to protect SK.

[Skyrunner]

I still think that NK won't be firing missiles on its own peninsula I mean... it deployed the missile(s) on the East Sea, whilst the best way to attack South Korea is aiming it somewhere inland actually at Seoul/other military targets around Seoul.

[Descan]

Besides, Nort Career (Seriously, that vice show had the it pronounced that way. The fuck? Was it the Korean accent or...?) wants to unite with South Korea. Or at least that's what they say.

Doubt they want to make their would-be new southern provinces a glass crater. Hard to farm on glass, I hear. Doesn't take water too well.

[Guardian G.I.]

If North Korea somehow manages to win the war against South Korea (very unlikely) and annex it (extremely unlikely), then Apple should build a giant monument to Kim Jong-un at their main headquarters.

[Sheb]

Descan, the problem is the Best Korean are pretty crappy farmers, what with all the starving and stuff.

[misko27]

So men, looks like war. We stand on th-


-wait, they haven't blown up anyone yet? Seriously?

[Max White]

I think they don't actually want war, they just want a common enemy as to avoid civil conflict.
The problem is that when the US starts flying near the borders, a certain level of retaliation is expected for Kim Jong-Un to maintain his 'tough guy in control' image, so he ramps up efforts, so the US retaliates, so they retaliate, and war... war never changes.

Best we can hope for is China makes a quick stab to remove all current power, puts Kim Jong-Nam in as a puppet, and claims that they were 'Restoring the rightful leader' then we cross our fingers that the public buys it and doesn't start some uprising long enough to start some god damn food, shelter and education programs.

[Flying Dice]

Descan, the problem is the Best Korean are pretty crappy farmers, what with all the starving and stuff.

I think the problem might possibly have something to do with so much of their resources going to support Great Leader's mighty war machine.

[RedKing]

Descan, the problem is the Best Korean are pretty crappy farmers, what with all the starving and stuff.

I think the problem might possibly have something to do with so much of their resources going to support Great Leader's mighty belly.

FTFY

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[Owlbread]

The North Koreans aren't bad farmers themselves, but their agricultural policies are very badly managed by the central government. Soldiers also periodically carried out raids on farms, stealing whatever they could for themselves (at least in the 1990s during the great famine). Plus, the land is barren.

Spoiler: Agriculture in the DPRK is a grim business (click to show/hide)

To visualise the kind of mismanagement that goes on, think of China back in the Great Leap Forward fiasco in which nearly 45 million people died - "I know, let's plant everything REALLY CLOSE TOGETHER!"

[RedKing]

The North Koreans aren't bad farmers themselves, but their agricultural policies are very badly managed by the central government. Soldiers also periodically carried out raids on farms, stealing whatever they could for themselves (at least in the 1990s during the great famine). Think of China back in the Great Leap Forward fiasco in which nearly 45 million people died - "I know, let's plant everything REALLY CLOSE TOGETHER!"

Well, and I don't know about North Korea, but one of the core problems in the Chinese example was local collective officials inflating crop yields so that Beijing didn't have a handle on how poor their harvests were until it was a major problem.

Example:
Glorious People's Collective Farm #1138 raises 40 tons of rice.
GPCF1138's Agricultural Commisar reports a yield of 60 tons of rice, thinking he's gonna get a nice promotion.
Beijing says, "Great job! Now send us half."
Net result: GPCF is only left with 10 tons of rice to feed its' thousands of villagers, instead of the 20 it should have had if the yield had been correctly reported.

Add in the ever-increasing inflation of reporting (because no one wants to report that their yield fell or was even stagnant) and declining crop yields, and pretty quickly you hit a state where the government was confiscating all food for redistribution to urban dwellers but thought the farmers were fine due to record crop yields. There were plenty of cases of massive deaths due to famine while the storehouses were full of rice.

Bad, bad times.

[Pnx]

That sounds exactly like the issues the Soviet Union had with it's planned economy. The various companies had to meet certain quota's, but that wasn't always possible, and the penalty for not meeting a quota was pretty damn harsh. As in, "we're sending all you lazy workers to the gulag" harsh. So instead of spending the money they got to meet their quota on producing goods they'd spend more and more of it on bribing officials and inspectors. Planned economies typically seem to breed corruption like crazy. At least the way the communists classically ran them.

Also another example of bad ideas the Nampo Dam, ridiculous investment of resources, that lost them valuable farm land and as far as I know didn't even let them do the bigger river barges it was supposed to help them with.

[scriver]

From what I heard, NK hasn't had a bad enough drought to cause the kind of starvation they're suffering from in years. Instead, what should go to the people goes to the leader cast, or is sold to wealthy Chinese people who doesn't want to eat poisoned Chinese food. The money then of course bring spent on more luxuries for the ruling class.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

And now Anonymous is involved.

[lordcooper]

And now Anonymous is involved.

Some poor sod is getting shot and his family sent to a 're-education camp' because of this.